To Kill a Mockingbird

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The ORIGINAL TEXT ‘Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to ...

The ORIGINAL TEXT ‘Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with both compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, Atticus, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy. (20030723)

"Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the

hmm..西方版的高纯度鸡汤。or 西方普世价值观blablabla?? ..I guess it's a meaningful book . Just not my type...humans are very complicated animals, but the characters in this book fit into each category: the victim, the good, the bad, the ugly.. it's just ..too black and white. I am afraid the reality doesn't work this way

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I don't want to be exaggerated. But to me, this is one of the best books I have ever read. When Charlie dropped the book to his bookshelf in the movie of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I peeked .........

I don't want to be exaggerated. But to me, this is one of the best books I have ever read. When Charlie dropped the book to his bookshelf in the movie of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I peeked .........

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Nice words^_^ There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

2013-05-18 16:44

Nice words^_^

There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

Nice words^_^ There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

2013-05-18 16:44

Nice words^_^

There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

Nice words^_^ There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

2013-05-18 16:44

Nice words^_^

There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

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tags:HarperLeehmm..西方版的高纯度鸡汤。or 西方普世价值观blablabla?? ..I guess it's a meaningful book . Just not my type...humans are very complicated animals, but the characters in this book fit into each category: the victim, the good, the bad, the ugly.. it's just ..too black and white. I am afraid the reality doesn't work this way